Thomas Steiner (@tomayac)

Now at @tomayac@toot.cafe

The below is an off-site archive of all tweets posted by @tomayac ever

June 9th, 2020

ECMAScript 4, the JavaScript that could have been: https://t.co/qIl4zYsEwx. Super interesting article by @evertp on the ES4 release that never was. 💏

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@chelo_xl I don’t have a proper answer right now. The proper answer for the future would be a “system” wake lock: https://t.co/g5KQ3WVjpO.

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RT @marvinhagemeist: When a site’s password rules are so stupid that even browser vendors include hacks to work around them 😅

Looking at t…

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The Screen Fold Angle API (Editor’s draft): https://t.co/pCsClsP69y. ⤵️ https://t.co/9h21CYa4SX

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RT @brianleroux: Deno moving internals away from TypeScript is an interesting read.

Internal advocates finding Ry isn’t convinced by the…

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@KingstonTime @owencm @kennethrohde There’re several ideas that have been discussed: permission bundling (i.e., less overall permissions since they’re presented in bulk), permissions with a timeout (i.e., one bad decision isn’t forever), gating powe

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Users of `<dark-mode-toggle>` 🌒 (https://t.co/FKfxCMMVoL) should update to v0.6.0, where the `no-preference` logic has just been removed.

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@Nyr0 Maybe @abrax5 can say something about this bug?

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@Nyr0 I see. I’ll keep this use case in mind, though. Thanks for sharing this, good food for thought.

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@Nyr0 Ah, that’s interesting. I guess you could process text locally on an offscreen `<canvas>` and then upload the raw pixel data to the server.

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@KevinJHill Happy to read that. I hear @Salesforce is all in on Web Components… 😍 If you have feedback, I’d greatly appreciate it. It’s early days for `<font-select>`, but a first alpha version to play with is on my GitHub: https://t.co/oJXH5PPJGK.

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@KingstonTime @owencm @kennethrohde You can follow the Chrome team’s work on fingerprinting prevention: https://t.co/taEe7Mx3ur.

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@Nyr0 This explicitly is for locally installed fonts, not Web fonts. The use case is, for example, Web-based design apps, where users need access to (potentially exclusively licensed) corporate fonts that are only locally installed.

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@KingstonTime @owencm @kennethrohde The feature will eventually be gated behind a permission prompt: https://t.co/drzlE0CcbB. It’s up to our great Chrome UI team to make sure the prompt is clear and understandable.

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@kennethrohde @reillyeon Absolutely. I believe there’s a huge middle ground between readymade tools like this and everything WebML (https://t.co/zzhsBULAwZ, CC: @anssik, @nsthorat).

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@rauschma @derSchepp Whenever you don’t know a word in English but in French, chances are you can butcher its pronunciation so it sounds Frenglish, and in doing so appear like a highly educated person. I do that bow-coo.

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RT @justmarkup: Better Image Description Browser Extension

https://t.co/f4gUjkq3Rs

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The final public memorial for George Floyd is taking place in Houston on Monday, the same day that the former officer charged in Floyd’s death will make his first court appearanceyoutu.be/4b0JXZZTRHo9D. Justice for George! âsMatter

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RT @SebFourault: #PWA are on a lot of companies’ roadmap to modernize their website and adapt to users’ new expectations. My new article an…

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